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The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine launched the “Fourth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine” entitled “Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine” on Sunday, in the Lebanese capital Beirut, where models of institutions and individuals were honored for their special offerings in the service of the issue within the “Pioneers of Offering for Palestine” program, followed by an interactive artistic section for Bahraini singer Hussein Al-Akraf and the international Jazz Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon.

The convention was attended by more than 300 activists from outside Lebanon, representing 80 countries around the world, and they will discuss over three days the most important aspects of the suffering of the Palestinian people, following the decision announced by US President Donald Trump and the importance of the work of international civil society institutions.

The Convention aims at discussing the most effective means to stand up against the plots and projects violating the Palestinian rights, developing coordination mechanisms between activists and NGOs for organizing solidarity activities and events, and agreeing on a common Solidarity work program for 2018-2019.

The participant delegations are to have a border tour, on Wednesday, in the villages overlooking the occupied Palestinian territories, and to visit the outset site of the 2011 march of return in the village of Maroun A-Ras, where a large number of martyrs ascended.

The opening ceremony included messages of solidarity with the Palestinian people and speeches by many participants, which dealt mainly with the dangers facing the Palestinian cause, especially after the decision of US President Donald Trump as Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli occupation entity and the decision to transfer the US Embassy in the entity of occupation from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The participants discussed the issue of prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons and Israeli violations against the Palestinian people in all its forms, as well as the issue of settlements in the occupied territories, the suffering of refugees and the siege imposed on Gaza Strip.

During the ceremony, U-News agency interviewed a number of figures attending the convention. Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Muhammad Hussein said this ceremony is important because it affects international public and popular opinion through the participating figures and organizations to pressure political decision maker to stand with the oppressed in the world.

For her part, MP in the Tunisian Parliament of the Popular Front, Mubaraka al-Brahimi, stressed that Tunisia throughout its history, since the Zionist occupation of Palestine, marched towards the participation in the battle for the liberation of Palestine, and shed their blood for this path, and Palestine live in the conscience of the Tunisian people who do not ignore any occasion related to the Arab-Zionist conflict only and go to the streets to force the Authority to neutralize its positions and not to abandon the Palestinian cause.

Member of the Preparatory Committee of the Convention Abdelmalek Sukareya pointed that this forum aims to coordinate efforts between all the free world supporters of Palestine, to develop this work to be more effective in the next phase to face the coming plans, and to appeal to the Palestinian people that they are not alone.

– General scenes from the opening ceremony – Side of the statements – Scenes of honoring – Statements by speakers

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